Usually means: Very brief moment in time.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word instant:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. instant, the instant, the instant (that): Merriam-Webster.com
  2. instant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. instant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. instant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. instant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Instant, instant: Wordnik
  7. instant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. instant: Wiktionary
  9. instant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. instant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. instant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. instant: Dictionary.com
  13. instant (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. instant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Instant (album), Instant (app), Instant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Instant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. instant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. instant: Rhymezone
  19. Instant-, instant, instant-, instant (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. instant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. instant: Free Dictionary
  22. instant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. instant: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. instant: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. instant: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. instant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. instant: Genealogy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. instant: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See instantness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A very short period of time; a moment.
noun:  A single, usually precise, point in time.
noun:  A beverage or food which has been pre-processed to reduce preparation time, especially instant coffee.
adjective:  (dated) Impending; imminent.
adjective:  (dated) Urgent; pressing; acute.
adjective:  (dated) Insistent; persistent.
adjective:  (law) Present; current; extant.
adjective:  Occurring immediately; immediate; present.
adjective:  Lasting for a short moment; momentary; short-lived.
adjective:  Very quickly and easily prepared.
adjective:  Of the current month.
adverb:  (poetic) At once; immediately.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To urge, press (smeone); to insist on, demand (something).
noun:  Ellipsis of instant camera. [A camera that uses self-developing film to create a chemically developed print shortly after the photograph is taken.]

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